Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
cd /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Joshua\ Priddle’s\ MacBook\ Pro/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/priddle
tmutil restore -v secret_docs.txt ~/
Learned from [WayBack] Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app:
cp as it will give you wrong permissionstmutilMore elaborate steps (including finding the backup in the first place) is at [WayBack] Commandline restoration of a file in Time Machine on OS X | Hacks for Macs
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/29
[WayBack] Objective-See: tracking down the cause a serious authentication flaw in Mac OS X / MacOS / Mac OS 10: resetting the root password by just clicking OK.
Via: [WayBack] How the MacOS High Sierra ##IAmRoot bug actually works. ##insightful … TL;DR the return value of the verify password function is interpreted wrong. Fix looks trivial. But this IS a serious bug. – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
Note the bug was already revealed two weeks ago: [WayBack] … after updating to High Sierra, the two admin accounts on this machine are all of a sudden standard accounts …
Via: [Archive.is] Mike Myers @fristle: Perhaps nobody noticed two weeks ago when the root login vulnerability in macOS High Sierra was shared as a helpful tip on Apple’s own Developer forums. https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235
The bug has already been fixed: [WayBack] About the security content of Security Update 2017-001 – Apple Support
Via: [WayBack] That was reasonably fast! ##Apple has released the fix for the embarrassing ##IAmRoot bug. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315 – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/24
[WayBack] macbook – OS X 10.9.5 hangs with grey spinner; safe mode last message is “payload 2: device was reinitialized” – Ask Different
[WayBack] Recovery partition: “Restore From Time Machine Backup” stuck at 43.6% for more than 60 minutes – Ask Different
Steps since then:
In total it took 2.5 days to get the machine back in working condition.
Related links:
[WayBack] The apple story continues…. Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+There was no transparent proxy inbetween the MacBook and Apple so these didn’t help:
- If you are running a transparent HTTP proxy on your network, you may have trouble with running Internet Recovery and Apple Hardware Test on Macs that support it. You’ll see a “-4403D or -4403F… [WayBack] Apple Internet Recovery and Transparent Proxies | David Andrzejewski
- [WayBack] Error -4403F Apple Mac Mini Internet Recovery Error – GalwayLand
What did help was ensuring there was only ONE NAT in between the MacBook and Apple.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17
The first trick works for WinBox 3.7 on Mac [download], the second doesn’t.
First trick:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17
I have the Atom editor and was wondering how you can open a file or folder from the terminal in Atom. I am using a Mac. I am looking for a way to do this: atom . (opens folder) atom file.js (
The answer to it isn’t any good any more (since then, Atom has evolved), but this comment works splendid:
I solved the issue by choosing “Install Shell Commands” under the “Atom” menu.
It will add a script in /usr/local/bin/atom that starts Atom with the parameters you entered.
[WayBack] github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
PS: Reminder to self to add a screenshot.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/13
For everyone who still loves and uses old computers.
Quite a few nice products for your vintage Apple II, //e and //c machines.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/27
Accessibiity -> Zoom -> enable checkbox” class=”size-medium” /> Preferences -> Accessibiity -> Zoom -> enable checkbox
I didn’t know this was built-in since Mountain Lion and up, but it is, is startable from the keyboard and it’s tremendously convenient when presenting: [WayBack]: OS X Mountain Lion: Zoom content on the screen.
TL;DR:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/16
We thought one of our Macs was compromised, but it wasn’t: it had too many web browsers open so it was crawling like a snake.
The below terminal commands and EtreCheck [Source: etresoft/EtreCheck: Source code for EtreCheck] helped to find out what was running:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfix|x)/{print $3}'
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
Source: [WayBack] I believe that I have a keylogger or some sort … | Official Apple Support Communities
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/13
Just in case you have this driver installed:
$ kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (9.0)
[WayBack] Hardware Monitor Help shows how to remove it:
- Ensure you are logged in as user with administrative rights.
- Use the Finder to open the folder Library at the topmost level of your system volume, and inside it, the folder StartupItems. If the driver is still installed, you will see the folder BRESINKx86Monitoring at this location.
- Drag the folder BRESINKx86Monitoring to the Trash. OS X may ask for your administrator password.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/05
Wow: nojhan/liquidprompt: A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
This is really useful!
via:
Sort of tanslated from the first “via” (note that “mit Alles und Scharf” is hard to translate; it’s somewhere between “everything but the kitchen sink, but done right” and “right on the money”):
Bash Prompt Overkill: https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt is a Bash “Prompt doing it all right”-extension, which doesn’t care how much any feature costs as we have cores, gigabytes and SSD.
Liquid Prompt automagically recognises context and enables a plethora of features in the prompt when needed based on that context.
It’s like pixie dust for your prompt.
You can configure everything, but you don’t have to: the out of the box experience is already like pixie dust for your prompt.
It works on OS X too and is part of homebrew:
$ brew install liquidprompt ==> Using the sandbox ==> Downloading https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt/archive/v_1.11.tar.gz ==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt/tar.gz/v_1.11 ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Caveats Add the following lines to your bash or zsh config (e.g. ~/.bash_profile): if [ -f /usr/local/share/liquidprompt ]; then . /usr/local/share/liquidprompt fi If you'd like to reconfigure options, you may do so in ~/.liquidpromptrc. A sample file you may copy and modify has been installed to /usr/local/share/liquidpromptrc-dist Don't modify the PROMPT_COMMAND variable elsewhere in your shell config; that will break things. ==> Summary 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/liquidprompt/1.11: 7 files, 125.6K, built in 3 seconds [jeroenp:~/Versioned] 10s $
–jeroen
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